MIX11

MIX is a gathering of developers, designers, UX experts and business professionals creating the most innovative and profitable consumer sites on the web. Sessions range from technical, code-based topics to expert advice on content strategy, usability and design. Explore the future of the standards-based web – join the conversation at MIX11.

Today, there is a lot of hype about the cloud. In this session we’ll cut through the hype and buzzwords and give you a practical introduction to the Windows Azure Platform. You’ll see several demos of common scenarios so you can understand how to start using the cloud today with your web...

Most people using Windows Azure are using ASP.NET and PHP, but Windows Azure is much more general than that. Steve Marx will show how he built a few web apps (including his blog) that run on Windows Azure and don’t use .NET or PHP. Server-side JavaScript, Ruby, and Python will be the most prominent...

As a consumer web startup, you spend a significant portion of your time raising awareness of your brand and driving traffic to your site. But, what happens when you succeed? How do you scale instantly from on-boarding 1 new user an hour to 1 new user every 5 seconds? MyWebCareer operates one of the...

The Microsoft platform for delivery of video and rich media experiences has fundamentally changed and grown significantly since the introduction of Silverlight and IIS Media Services several years ago. Come learn about the encoding tools, digital rights management components, transcoding services, player...

Come learn how to use the Windows Azure AppFabric Access Control Service as a key building block for your web applications. See how your applications can seamlessly work with LiveID, Google, Yahoo!, Facebook, and corporate identities - all from a single codebase. Watch the barriers to entry disappear,...

So you want to stream live and on demand video? But how do you create it, stream it, edit it, manage it and monetize it? Come and see how the Microsoft Media Platform Content Manager pulls together the end-end video workflow to allow you to accomplish all of these. From creating live streaming events,...

Learn how to build Windows Phone 7 applications that are backed by scalable cloud components hosted in Windows Azure. This demo-focused session will cover the end-to-end experience and address how to tackle issues such as authentication, storage, and notification using the Windows Azure Toolkit for Windows...

You already knew you could run your .NET-based applications on Windows Azure, but did you know you can encode videos in Windows Azure with Expression Encoder, use Memcached, run multiple web sites in a Web Role, and more? Steve Marx will show you ten things he’s done with Windows Azure that may...

Umbraco is a developer friendly, open-source CMS that is built 100% on .NET. Today Umbraco powers over 85,000 sites. Now deploying Umbraco sites to the cloud with the Windows Azure Platform is also fast and easy. Using the Windows Azure Accelerator for Umbraco it is simple to deploy our pre-configured...